Circus (disambiguation)
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A circus is a traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts.
Circus may also mean:
- circus (building), an example of a public equipped space for chariot racing, shows and other spectacles of the Classical period - modelled on the Circus Maximus
- An open space, usually circular, where a number of roads meet, such as:
- Oxford Circus, London
- Cambridge Circus, London
- Piccadilly Circus, London
- The Circus (Bath)
- Circus, a genus of harriers, a type of bird of prey
- Media circus, overblown media coverage of a news event, such as a trial.
In movies:
- Circus (2000 movie), crime thriller starring John Hannah
- The Circus (1958 film), a Chinese film
- Circus (1936 movie), Soviet melodramatic comedy
- The Circus (silent film) (1928), starring Charlie Chaplin
- The Invisible Circus (2001), starring Cameron Diaz
In literature:
- Circus (novel), a novel by Alistair MacLean
- In many novels by John le Carré, the British Secret Intelligence Service is referred to as The Circus, due to its (fictional) location in Cambridge Circus, London.
- Circus (magazine), a now-defunct publication which covered the rock scene, much like Rolling Stone Magazine.
also
- The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus 1968 event, hosted by The Rolling Stones featuring many Rock and Roll bands from the time.
- Circus is also an album by the pinoy rock band The Eraserheads.
- an arcade game from 1977 like the Atari 2600 game Circus Atari
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